POWELL, Anthony.
[A Dance to the Music of Time].
[A Dance to the Music of Time].
A Question of Upbringing; A Buyer's Market; The Acceptance World; At Lady Molly's; Casanova's Chinese Restaurant; The Kindly Ones; The Valley of Bones; The Soldier's Art; The Military Philosophers; Books do Furnish a Room; Temporary Kings; Hearing Secret Harmonies.
Stock Code 116506
London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1951; 1952; 1955; 1956; 1960; 1962; 1964; 1966; 1968; 1971; 1973; 1975.
First editions, first impressions; 12 vols, 8vo (190 x 130 mm); internally all are at least in near-fine if not fine condition; publisher's uniform red cloth bindings with black and gilt lettering-pieces to spines, some a tad rubbed at spine extremities, browning to endpapers of first two titles, slight offsetting to endpapers of third, else hear fine, illustrated dust-jackets mostly credited to 'Broome-Lynn', some chips to corners or bumping to spine ends and a few with toned spines and a few flaps with small creases but, overall a remarkably crisp and near-fine set with none price-clipped; together with a copy of Hilary Spurling's handbook to the series published in 1977.
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